Is it normal autistic people have to learn to care?

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Basically if you're on the spectrum is it normal to not care about anything that's supposedly important in the world unless someone convinces you to? For example I don't care about sex, relationships, drugs, politics etc. and people make a big deal about all those things. So I'm trying to learn how people care so much about it and kind of pretend I do just to feel normal in life.

personally i didn't have any strong desire to be in a relationship or have sex but society makes such a big deal out of it i feel like i have to or else there something wrong with me. there is a guy who loves me a lot so I'm making myself learn to feel the same just because of him and that it's the right(normal) thing to do.

Another way this happens is when something that wouldn't bother me, bothers someone else. I know it's common for autistics to lack empathy but I don't have a complete lack, I just can't "feel" it for others when things happen to them that wouldn't bother me personally (and there is not a lot that does).

Is this normal? Is this an autistic thing? Or something else?

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  • [Old Memory]
    6 years ago

    I'm autistic and can relate to this.
    I'm not asexual though but a lot of autistics are.
    I don't give a shit about fitting in of pleasing others either. Fuck pretending to be normal. Just do what you want.

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    • Zorak
      6 years ago

      Bugs...you dont remember me...Icame

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      • [Old Memory]
        6 years ago

        I remember you. What's up

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        • Zorak
          6 years ago

          Not much right now. Just working at an art studio right meow...and being boring I guess. What have you been up to? I havent talked to you in about two years

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          • [Old Memory]
            6 years ago

            I haven't visited here too much lately. Im still doing the same stuff though. Playing in bands and getting drunk. I'm pretty happy with my life currently though.

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            • Zorak
              6 years ago

              Thats good. I remember you showing me some of the songs you recorded. They were pretty good.

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  • Zorak
    6 years ago

    You could also be a psychopath. Trench coat and an AR 15.

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    • wigz
      6 years ago

      I used to have a trench coat but no AR 15. Now I have an AR 15 but no trench coat. Oh fortune, how you mock me!

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      • Zorak
        6 years ago

        You need a short skirt and a long jacket.

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        • wigz
          6 years ago

          That's so 90's!

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          • Zorak
            6 years ago

            Yes, I know. 😄

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      I only want to kīll bad people #painolo

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      • Zorak
        6 years ago

        Dylan Klebold looks like he was the type of guy who never wore deodorant.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          6 years ago

          Hahaha I never thought of that. guys' b/o is attractive to some ladies tho..

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          • Zorak
            6 years ago

            Girls are fucking weird like that. Some enjoy the sweaty BO smells of certain guys.

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            • Murun
              6 years ago

              It's a good way to tell if you're genetically compatible. I stopped using any deodorant in my late teens when I realised how stupid and unnatural it was. I do wash regularly so sweat never hangs around enough to become offensive, but I have noticed if I've been working hard an equal number of women either do or don't like the smell of my shirt.

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              6 years ago

              because SCIENCE

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